Hybrid routing protocol (distance vector that has link-state protocol characteristics).
Makes Automatic summarization on network Class boundary.
Use DUAL, first proposed by E. W. Dijkstra and C. S. Scholten, to perform distributed shortest-path routing while maintaining freedom from loops at every instant. Although many researchers have contributed to the development of DUAL, the most prominent work is that of J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.
First released in IOS 9.21
Uses IP protocol 88.
For Low speed Hello is every 60 sec. with hold down time 180 sec.
Classless protocol (supports VLSM).
Default composite metric of bandwidth and delay.
Maximum paths for Load-balancing are 6 & default is 4 , maximum are 16 in IOS 12.3(2)T and later IOS releases
You can factor load, MTU and reliability into the metric.
Eigrp metric is the same as IGRP*256, It uses the smallest B.W,Reliablity,Load & MTU with the Comulative delay upon the path…..The MTU doesn’t actually used in the Metric calculations,
But is included in the EIGRP Routing updates.
Sends route updates to multicast address 224.0.0.10, and nei. Reply’s back with Unicast Address.
Sends non-periodic, partial, and bounded updates.
Send Hello packets every 5 sec. and Hold down timer is 15 sec.
By default, EIGRP uses no more than 50 percent of the bandwidth of a link.
Support for authentication via MD5 Only.
Have the power to shut the Auto-summarization And make a configured manual Summarization.
Cisco Proprietary created in 1994.
Uses DUAL for loop prevention, and generating Succ./Fesible Succ.
By default, Equal-Metric load balancing. If Unequal-Metric load sharing is used the router will load share inversely proportional to the metrics of the paths.
Administrative distance is 90 for EIGRP internal routes, 170 for EIGRP external routes, and 5 for EIGRP summary routes.
Potential routing protocol for the core of a network; used in large networks.
For neighbor relation to be established, both routers must send and receive Hello or Ack packets from each other, they must have the same AS #, and the same Metric K values.
Eigrp doesn’t restrict that neighbors must have the same Hello & dead interval timers, Unlike OSPF.
Has a Maximum hop count of 255, the default is 100 in the last IOS releases.
The composite metric for each EIGRP route is calculated as
EIGRP metric = IGRP metric * 256
IGRP metric = [k1*BWIGRP(min) + (k2* BWIGRP(min))/(256-LOAD) + k3*DLYIGRP(sum)]
x [k5/(RELIABILITY + k4)]
If k5 is set to zero, the [k5/(RELIABILITY+k4)] term is not used.
Given the default values for k1 through k5, the composite metric calculation used by EIGRP reduces to the default metric:
IGRP metric = BWIGRP(min) + DLYIGRP(sum)
BWIGRP(min) = 107/BW(min)
DLYIGRP(sum) = DLY(sum) /10